Strangeways is the brutally honest account of Sam’s life as a prison officer at the notorious HMP Manchester, popularly know as Strangeways. For over a decade, he was responsible for keeping the UK’s most dangerous criminals in check— gangsters and gangbangers, terrorists and psychopaths, addicts and the mentally ill. As staffing cuts saw Britain’s prison system descend into crisis, the stress of the job – the suicides, the inhumanity of the system and one assault too many – left him suffering from PTSD.

Strangeways is published by Pan Macmillan and is available from all good book shops. Mammoth Screen have optioned the rights for TV.